The bane of Western military strategy – Technological Determinism
As Stephen Biddle has so presciently stated, we have witnessed both the confirmation and denial of the importance of technology in war over the past...
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A Soldier, A Sailor and A Scientist – Space
This week on A Soldier, A Sailor and a Scientist, Pete and Frosty talk to DSTL’s Mike O’Callaghan about space. Space is a military domain...
A Soldier, a Sailor and a Scientist
Hello and welcome to ‘A soldier, A sailor and a Scientist’. In this podcast series, James Athow-Frost and Peter Roberts meet Scientists from the Defence...
Sharpening The UK Defence’s Edge in the 2020s: General Sir Patrick Sanders’s speech to the UK Strategic Command Conference at RUSI.
This is a transcript of the speech given by General Sir Patrick Sanders to the UK Strategic Command Conference at RUSI on 26 May 2021....
Architecting the Information Age War
It is folly to plan to fight the information age war using contemporary technologies fixed to industrial age CONOPS and platforms. We need new Information...
Hacking Brains: Enhancing Soldier Cognitive Performance
Hacking Brains: Enhancing Soldier Cognitive Performance. A necessary and inevitable future for the British Army....
Faster, Stronger, Quicker, Decisive = Better Soldiers: The Case For Performance Enhancement
With an increasing likelihood of technological parity in traditional military technology, militaries are identifying new ways of operating. Hence the interest in information advantage or...
Drug-fuelled combatants: achieving military success by enhancing human ability
In November 2008, ten members of terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a devastating attack in Mumbai. These men fought an extended battle with Indian security...
Dangerous Knowledge?
There is a great deal of suspicion and mistrust about enhancement. The Royal Society’s iHuman report and the earlier AARP study of attitudes in the...
A coming bio-tech revolution in warfare
Following a spate of reports and public announcements over the summer of 2019 it appears the potential for a bio-tech revolution is fast approaching. The...